WP 2.5 – WYSIWIG Problem

Hello, I was all psyched to finally install the latest version of WordPress 2.5 on my site, and already I’m not so sure about it… I do like some things about it, and I’m sure that I will find many more, but (also after checking the forum upon its very early release, and noticing quite a few users having problems with it), I am wondering if there are some issues with Version 2.5.

First of all, I noticed already that the WYSIWIG editor did not keep previous content “intact” upon editing, as promised:

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/Friendlier visual post editor — I’m not sure how to articulate this improvement except to say “it doesn’t mess with your code anymore.” We’re now using version 3.0 of TinyMCE, which means better compatibility with Safari, and we’ve paid particular attention this release to its integration and interaction with complex HTML…

For example, the first post I tried to make and then edit after going from ‘HTML’ to ‘Visual’ mode in the post editing window screwed up the appearance of the post immediately after I hit ‘SAVE’.

I also could not get anything to appear at all in the pop-up window once I highlighted some text and tried to ‘INSERT A LINK’ while preparing a post….

This already gives me great concerns, both for preserving the integrity of content as far as editing for my site, and for the fact that I was considering going to a complete WP blog-style format for my entire site just recently, but now I feel I must have some serious doubts about this.

I do appreciate all the WordPress coders efforts, I still think this is a great product, and I have confidence that the developer community can help work out any bugs (I am willing to help out to by reporting any issues I at least may encounter).

sacredpath – well interestingly enough I did notice that the table background that is supposed to be white (from the theme’s template) and is missing in Firefox, i.e. (no background color for the body cell appears in white), does appear in Internet Explorer.

Yes I do hope these issues can get resolved. Maybe this kind of thing is normal in the early stages of any release. We’ll just hope for the best I guess : – >

Rhodz, wow – well good to see someone else experiencing the same problem. I am almost certain they will be addressing a lot of these issues that apparently many people are having with WP 2.5, and releasing a follow-up (2.51?) or patch(es) very soon. Good luck to you too!

1) I am confident that the sharp WP developers will see all these issues and make the necessary changes – maybe this is just part of a necessary “evolution” and,

2) I found out something just now that was re-assuring and I think will at least provide a temporary fix. For the time being at least, stick with the ‘HTML’ part of the visual editor. I just realized (thanks to I think reading someone else’s post) that this will still allow you to edit a link (type some text, highlight it, and then select the word “link” in blue, this will thing bring up a pop-up box that DOES successfully allow you to add in a URL – also to insert an image press the “img” button (again in the ‘HTML’ section) this will let you at least enter the URL of an image.